Pregnancy Test Tweaking Part 7!

What is a pregnancy test tweak? - Tweakers use various photo programs to analyze your HPT to see if we can pull out a faint pink line for an early BFP!!

Tweaking "Rules": Please take your pictures within 10 minutesto prevent drying to help with accurate tweaking.

Please lay your test FLAT on a surface because holding it in the air can cause pixelation and fake lines!!

PLEASE take your photos with the macro setting on your camera. If a picture is too blurry, we cannot give you an accurate tweak. Also, don't worry about getting too close to the test. We can zoom in and crop if need be.

How to post a picture: Upload your photos to your Baby Center photos and then cut and paste them in this thread OR upload them to Photobucket (free) and copy the HTML code on this thread!!

****Tweakers please do not invert test as it gives false hope. Also please do NOT mess with SATURATION!!***

Some of the programs we use to tweak: Photobucket, Picmonkey.com

Possible results!!

Indents - Indentation line is where the antibody test strip is. On some tests this line looks like it is indented into the pregnancy test, on some tests you can clearly see the edges of the antibody strip causing to insanely thin lines to appear in the test line area. An Indent occurs when the dye runs across the test strip, if there is any HCG detected in your urine the "Indention Line" will turn pink. If not the indention line will stay white/gray, During a tweak this line is often drug out.

Dye Runs (DR): when the test turns pink in color after testing, sometimes brought out when tweaking. Dye Runs happen the dye has not had enough time to settle into the test or has been oversaturated and cannot completely settle. Could also just be the test and nothing that you can do to change even if you only dip for the alotted amount of time and let dry. Dye runs can also make indents appear to be pink when they are actually not. Dye runs can also HIDE pretty pink lines making us unable to call it a BFP.either way, they are no fun.

Faint Line: Tweaker might be pulling a line on your test, but unsure or not seeing any color. Could just be the indent OR could be the start of something, recommend to keep testing!

FYI:

Taking the Test Apart- Please make sure and take a picture ASAP of the test once you take it out of the casing. Once Air hits the test, it will start to dry it, and an indent line will form more visible. If this sits out long enough you will see a line, and it will make you think it is a true line, when it isn't. Even when you tweak it, it will be visible and could even be some what pink because of the saturation of the colors when tweaked. So be very careful of this!

Disappearing Line- Often, when the dye starts to run across the test window, you will start to see the dye form a line, then it disappears once it settles. Unfortunately, that would be an evaporation line. True test lines do not disappear.

Blue dye tests are notorious for false positives and can be unreliable. Please follow up any line on blue dye with pink.

Most of the time our tweaks are very accurate however, remember:We tweak for fun, we are not doctors!

What is the earliest I can test:"One important thing to understand is that every womans body is different. The timing of detecting pregnancy can, therefore, vary greatly from one woman to the next. It can about take 7 to 10 days, after conception, before the fertilized egg actually implants in the uterus, and the hormone hCG (Human Chorionnic Gonadotropin) starts to increase"

"The level of hCG, in a healthy pregnancy, usually doubles every 48 to 72 hours."

The spotting started last Monday on, Cindy. Drove me nuts because I wasn't supposed to ovulate until the 8th, I'm so confused by it.
I actually wanted to wait until September to TTC originally! Lol! But with the missed pills, ah screw it! Lol!
I really hope Landon transitions much easier then Luke! He still ends up in our bed half the time!

2nd Landon too. I try to put him in the crib to get him used to his own space and I usually have to bring him to bed after a few hours. My record was him being in his crib until 5 in the morning.

And that makes sense. I was going to wait until September to start too but I had fail at using a condom once last month and I didn't want to wait so I started ntnp and went into full ttc mode this month. But now I'm sure I'm out this month and I need to wait how long I originally planned so back to condoms for me. Dh will be so sad about that lol.

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C + E = L 6/13/12

As women, aren't we all supposed to rub each other's clits together and sing kumbaya while cooking dinner for our men? - utzthegreat